The three volume set LNCS 7583, 7584 and 7585 comprises the Workshops and Demonstrations which took place in connection with the European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012, held in Firenze, Italy, in October 2012. The total of 179 workshop papers and 23 demonstration papers was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. They where held at workshops with the following themes: non-rigid shape analysis and deformable image alignment; visual analysis and geo-localization of large-scale imagery; Web-scale vision and social media; video event categorization, tagging and retrieval; re-identification; biological and computer vision interfaces; where computer vision meets art; consumer depth cameras for computer vision; unsolved problems in optical flow and stereo estimation; what's in a face?; color and photometry in computer vision; computer vision in vehicle technology: from earth to mars; parts and attributes; analysis and retrieval of tracked events and motion in imagery streams; action recognition and pose estimation in still images; higher-order models and global constraints in computer vision; information fusion in computer vision for concept recognition; 2.5D sensing technologies in motion: the quest for 3D; benchmarking facial image analysis technologies.

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1360 revised papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5025 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Features: discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on depth maps and methods for capturing human performance in 3D; reviews a selection of applications which use RGB-D information to reconstruct human figures, evaluate energy consumption and obtain accurate action classification; presents an approach for 3D object retrieval and for the reconstruction of gas flow from multiple Kinect cameras; describes an RGB-D computer vision system designed to assist the visually impaired and another for smart-environment sensing to assist elderly and disabled people; examines the effective features that characterize static hand poses and introduces a unified framework to enforce both temporal and spatial constraints for hand parsing; proposes a new classifier architecture for real-time hand pose recognition and a novel hand segmentation and gesture recognition system.

This book presents a thorough overview of fusion in computer vision, from an interdisciplinary and multi-application viewpoint, describing successful approaches, evaluated in the context of international benchmarks that model realistic use cases. Features: examines late fusion approaches for concept recognition in images and videos; describes the interpretation of visual content by incorporating models of the human visual system with content understanding methods; investigates the fusion of multi-modal features of different semantic levels, as well as results of semantic concept detections, for example-based event recognition in video; proposes rotation-based ensemble classifiers for high-dimensional data, which encourage both individual accuracy and diversity within the ensemble; reviews application-focused strategies of fusion in video surveillance, biomedical information retrieval, and content detection in movies; discusses the modeling of mechanisms of human interpretation of complex visual content.

This timely and authoritative volume explores the bidirectional relationship between images and locations. The text presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in large-scale visual geo-localization, and discusses the emerging trends in this area. Valuable insights are supplied by a pre-eminent selection of experts in the field, into a varied range of real-world applications of geo-localization. Topics and features: discusses the latest methods to exploit internet-scale image databases for devising geographically rich features and geo-localizing query images at different scales; investigates geo-localization techniques that are built upon high-level and semantic cues; describes methods that perform precise localization by geometrically aligning the query image against a 3D model; reviews techniques that accomplish image understanding assisted by the geo-location, as well as several approaches for geo-localization under practical, real-world settings.

Nowadays, the technological advances allow developing many applications on different fields. In this book Motion Tracking and Gesture Recognition, two important fields are shown. Motion tracking is observed by a hand-tracking system for surgical training, an approach based on detection of dangerous situation by the prediction of moving objects, an approach based on human motion detection results and preliminary environmental information to build a long-term context model to describe and predict human activities, and a review about multispeaker tracking on different modalities. On the other hand, gesture recognition is shown by a gait recognition approach using Kinect sensor, a study of different methodologies for studying gesture recognition on depth images, and a review about human action recognition and the details about a particular technique based on a sensor of visible range and with depth information.

This highly informative and carefully presented book covers the most recent advances as well as comprehensive reviews addressing novel and state-of-the-art topics from active researchers in innovative advanced materials and hybrid materials, concerning not only their synthesis, preparation, and characterization but especially focusing on the applications of such materials with outstanding performance.

Smart cities operate under more resource-efficient management and economy than ordinary cities. As such, advanced business models have emerged around smart cities, which led to the creation of smart enterprises and organizations that depend on advanced technologies. This book includes 21 selected and peer-reviewed articles contributed in the wide spectrum of artificial intelligence applications to smart cities. Chapters refer to the following areas of interest: vehicular traffic prediction, social big data analysis, smart city management, driving and routing, localization, safety, health, and life quality.

The 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Mechanical Automation carried on the success from last year and received overwhelming support from the research community as evidenced by the number of high quality submissions. The conference accepted articles through rigorous peer review process. We are grateful to the contributions of all the authors. For those who have papers appear in this collection, we thank you for your great effort that makes this conference a success and the volume of this proceeding worth reading. For those whose papers were not accepted, we assure you that your support is very much appreciated. The papers in this proceeding represent a broad spectrum of research topics and reveal some cutting-edge developments. Chapter 1 and 2 contain articles in the areas of computer science and information technology. The articles in Chapter 1 focus on algorithm and system development in big data, data mining, machine learning, cloud computing, security, robotics, Internet of Things, and computer science education. The articles in Chapter 2 cover image processing, speech recognition, sound event recognition, music classification, collaborative learning, e-government, as well as a variety of emerging new areas of applications. Some of these papers are especially eye-opening and worth reading. Chapter 3 and 4 contain papers in the areas of sensors, instrument and measurement. The articles in Chapter 3 cover mostly navigation systems, unmanned air vehicles, satellites, geographic information systems, and all kinds of sensors that are related to location, position, and other geographic information. The articles in Chapter 4 are about sensors and instruments that are used in areas like temperature and humidity monitoring, medical instruments, biometric sensors, and other sensors for security applications. Some of these papers are concerned about highly critical systems such as nuclear environmental monitoring and object tracking for satellite videos. Chapter 5 and 6 contain papers in the areas of mechatronics and electrical engineering. The articles in Chapter 5 cover mostly mechanical design for a variety of equipment, such as space release devices, box girder, shovel loading machines, suspension cables, grinding and polishing machines, gantry milling machines, clip type passive manipulator, hot runner systems, water hydraulic pump/motor, and turbofan engines. The articles in Chapter 6 focus on mechanical and automation devices in power systems as well as automobiles and motorcycles. This collection of research papers showcases the incredible accomplishments of the authors. In the meantime, they once again prove that the International Conference on Computer Science and Mechanical Automation is a highly valuable platform for the research community to share ideas and knowledge. Organization of an international conference is a huge endeavor that demands teamwork. We very much appreciate everyone who is involved in the organization, especially the reviewers. We are looking forward to another successful conference next year.